From: Russ Allbery Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:19:00 GMT Subject: Re: Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header Message-ID: <87mxrda6e3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <87y6axshmt.fsf_-_@gmail.com> Štěpán Němec writes: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that >> do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the >> difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for >> the "From: " line). > FWIW, the quoted-printable `From:' encoding has always annoyed me -- I > replace it manually with my name & address in UTF-8 every time I send > out a patch. What is the reason format-patch does that (and if there is > a reason not to change the default, could an option to disable it be > provided)? Well, it's required if you're going to actually send the result directly as a mail message, since the RFC 5322 format requires headers be encoded using RFC 2047 encoding. But if you're just attaching the patch to another mail message, it's pointless. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)